Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old photograph of the Hawes Inn in South Queensferry near Edinburgh, Scotland. The Hawes Inn, dating from the 17th century, almost under the Forth Bridge features in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped.
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Old photograph of cottages, houses and people on West Shore Street in Pittenweem, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Until 1975 Pittenweem was a royal burgh, having been awarded the status by King James V in 1541. Founded as a fishing village around a probably early Christian religious settlement, it grew along the shoreline from the west where the sheltered beaches were safe places for fishermen to draw their boats up out of the water. Later a breakwater was built, extending out from one of the rocky skerries that jut out south-west into the Firth of Forth like fingers. This allowed boats to rest at anchor rather than being beached, enabling larger vessels to use the port.
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Old photograph of the River Oykel in Sutherland, Scotland. This is a major river in the northern Highlands that is famous for its salmon fishing. It rises on Ben More Assynt, a few miles from Ullapool on the west coast of Scotland, and drains into the North Sea via the Kyle of Sutherland. Traditionally it has marked the boundary between Ross to the south and Sutherland to the north. The Oykel was known to the Vikings as the Ekkjal. It served as the boundary between the ancient Pictish province of Cat, Sutherland and Caithness, and the province of Ross. In 1406, the Mackays defeated the Clan MacLeod of Lewis at the Battle of Tuiteam Tarbhach on the north bank near the mouth of the Tutim Burn.
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Old photograph of houses on Trenchard Crescent in Kinloss, Moray, Scotland. It was named after Hugh Trenchard, the "father" of the Royal Air Force, it was primarily developed to provide married quarters for personnel stationed at the nearby RAF maritime patrol base, which was central to Cold War operations.
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